Microsoft is rolling out a new update to the Windows Store for Windows 10 Insider preview builds. The new version includes download size file info for apps.

The new version number for the Windows Store is 11605.1000.113.0. Aside from showing app download file sizes, the update also includes a few minor user interface changes. Again, this update is just for people who have Insider builds of Windows 10 installed on their PC or smartphone.

Quite honestly I could care less about download size info. What I do care about, besides whether the app is made for Windows 10, is when the app was last updated. I refuse to install apps that show very little in the way of continual support.

Generally speaking I stay away from apps that haven't been updated for more than 6 months, and with the windows store no longer publishing that info I am spending far less time in the windows store than ever before.

It's not only for insiders. I think MS is doing some A/B testing now too. The Store updated on my brothers laptop, and it's on production. But it didn't on his production phone, my production laptop, and my release preview phone.

I wish they could do more to make the updates screen more useful, like taping in the listed app to view it with a detailed changelog, reviews and stuff. You know....just like iOS or Play Store. Tapping on an app on the updates list does absolutely nothing, another wasted opportunity to really make the Store useful

To everyone complaining about the UI. Interface is literally the last thing that gets worked on, after the functional changes are complete. Why bother working on the UI of something that is still being changed, and have to do it all over again?

While I applaud them for adding some much wanted and simple features, such as the ability to tap an update in the list and actually open it up in the Store, the interface has in some places taken a turn to the worse. I mean why on earth is there a big label that says "Update available" on every item in a list with the headline "Available updates"? And then the actual button to initiate the update is just a small icon...

The label is entirely unnecessary. They could easily just have the button and then when you initiate the download they could display the progress bar.

And for Pete's sake, put "What's new" towards the top of the Store listing!

I am not going to slam them for slow performance in a beta build, but I will slam them for the Store always having been slow overall.

Btw. it looks like it is showing the version number for the Store, this is new too. Does it do this for all items? I could of course update my own phone and find out, but that would be too easy... And updates are now grouped separately once they are in the queue. I like that.

I do think that they are moving in the right direction though, so keep it coming!

While I'm happy, I'm really upset at how ugly that looks... that's one cluttered mess. They need to fix all the sizing and line things up properly.. and that progress bar is WAY too big... they should just have kept it like it originally was in earlier builds (and in WP8.1).

I'm not sure why but this new Microsoft seems to have an obsession with wasting valuable screen real estate with, in this case a totally unnecessarily large progress bar that offers no real advantage over the previous version. Guess we can be glad we don't really spend that much time in the store at least.

I think that it may already be back in the builds being tested inside MS. I recall DanR saying that internally MS are a few builds ahead of what insiders get. Or maybe they are trying to figure how to fit in the new video section for apps.

That is in the past two updates... the screenshot shown in the article where it says "Recent activity"... it's shown there with Store being updated "minutes ago" and then Today, Yesterday, and then the actual date updated.

I agree. The date the developer last updated the app is something that Microsoft removed from the store because they thought it might make the store look bad with so many developers giving the store a "one shot" and out type of thing, never updating. It needs to be put back.